Footballers' Wives and Girlfriends exploded into British pop culture at the turn of the millennium, but what does the WAG tell us about feminism, football and pre-credit crunch Britain? Grace Whorrall-Campbell explores.
What might the story of a summer camp tell us about the practice and politics of solidarity? Sorcha Thomson on the 'Friends of Palestine' camp of 1969.
Disabled people have always been at the heart of British economic and labour history, but their contributions in the workplace often go unrecognised. Gill Crawshaw explores.
The 9th of June 1965 was declared as the first day of the Dhufar Revolution. What role did a small group of British solidarity activists play in the revolution's fate?
Ayahs and Amahs were empire's care-workers, raising the children of colonial families. Julia Laite on a new online exhibition that foregrounds their stories.
As repressive legislation to restrict protest is passed in India and Britain, how can we understand its historical roots and how can this inform activism today?
Sixty years after breaking into a government bunker to expose secret state planning for nuclear conflict, Nic Ralph speaks for the first time about an extraordinary piece of direct action that genuinely worked.
How can we understand the current wave of strikes as part of a longer struggle around the value of care work? Emily Baughan reflects from the picket line.
Spare Rib was an iconic magazine of the British women's liberation movement. As Lucy Delap reveals, it was also an important site of debate over Black, post-colonial and 'Third World' feminisms.
What can the radical tradition of costume & performance at Notting Hill Carnival tell us about a decolonised approach to the teaching of history? Ife Thompson on the People's War Carnival Band
How was the eighteenth-century pursuit of knowledge intertwined with enslavement and empire? Lucy Moynihan on the history of literary institutions in the British colonial world.
Julie Hardwick, Marybeth Hamilton, Kate Gibson, Sarah Roddy, Orsi Husz, Andrew Popp & Alexia Yates
What does it mean to write "intimate histories" of economic life? How might a focus on "the intimate" transform the way historians perceive and describe the economic past?
